Weather Report Live in Offenbach, Germany Sept. 28, 1978 Artists: - Joe Zawinul (keyboards) - Wanye Shorter (tenor and soprano saxophone) - Jaco Pastorius (electric bass) - Peter Erkskine (drums) Tracklist: 01. Black Market 02. Scarlet Woman 03. Young and Fine 04. The Pursuit of the Woman with the Feathered Hat 05. A Remark You Made 06. River People 07. Thanks for the Memories 08. Dolores / Portrait of Tracy / Third Stone from the Sun 09. Mr. Gone 10. In a Silent Way 11. Waterfall 12. Teen Town 13. I Got It Bad and That Aint Good / The Midnight Sun Will Never Set On You 14. Birdland 15. Introductions 16. Fred & Jack 17. Elegant People 18. Badia Previously unreleased recordings from pioneering fusion band Weather Report playing live in the 1970s are streaming from the late Joe Zawinuls estate in the groups 40th anniversary year. This springs 1975 Live in Berlin set caught the band beginning to sense its power over a rock audience. Live in Offenbach, from September 1978, features the band that included bass-guitar star Jaco Pastorius. It also included Peter Erskine, a shrewd drummer who helped reintroduce a cooler jazz feel after the critical hammering that had greeted the overcooked, studio-made Mr Gone earlier that year. Stripped down to a quartet, the band sound engaged (particularly the sometimes enigmatic saxist Wayne Shorter), and after the standard early workouts on their hits, they get surprisingly loose and open. Shorter exhibits Sonny Rollinss muscular solo-sax whimsicality on the standard Thanks for the Memory, and Zawinuls wealth of acoustic-piano improv ideas burst out of I Got It Bad and That Aint Good, while Birdland has a bright, rough-and-ready energy. Pastoriuss driving basslines thunder through the music, even if his solo spots tend to emit more heat than light. Its a vivid show from a WR period sometimes considered short of inspiration
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